Senior DevOps Contracts

Senior Development Operations
UK

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 533 582
Rank change year-on-year +70 +49 -78
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 108 158 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.30% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 122 226
10th Percentile £500 £519 £500
25th Percentile £550 £566 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £775 £737 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.69 - -
25th Percentile £73.97 - -
Median hourly rate £74.44 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,467 53,505 83,509
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.60% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,700 37,347 58,712
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,724 1,494 2,029
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.95 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps.

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior DevOps.

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +52 91 £600 -7.69% 47
Work from Home +99 52 £613 -2.00% 43
London +75 50 £650 - 25
UK excluding London +37 34 £625 -3.85% 27
South East +22 14 £600 -12.73% 3
North West +24 11 £675 +3.85% 7
North of England +20 11 £675 -3.57% 9
South West +9 7 £625 -7.41% 5
Midlands +25 2 £350 -48.15% 3
West Midlands +9 2 £350 -50.00% 3
Wales - 2 £821 -

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Senior DevOps contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 108 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (56.48%) CI/CD
3 59 (54.63%) Terraform
4 54 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 50 (46.30%) Python
6 47 (43.52%) Azure
6 47 (43.52%) AWS
7 36 (33.33%) Security Cleared
8 35 (32.41%) Ansible
9 32 (29.63%) Docker
10 29 (26.85%) Jenkins
11 24 (22.22%) Git
12 22 (20.37%) PowerShell
12 22 (20.37%) Bash
13 21 (19.44%) SC Cleared
13 21 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
14 20 (18.52%) Linux
15 19 (17.59%) Agile
15 19 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
16 18 (16.67%) Product Ownership
17 17 (15.74%) Windows
17 17 (15.74%) SDLC
18 16 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
18 16 (14.81%) Test Automation
18 16 (14.81%) Banking
19 15 (13.89%) Public Sector
19 15 (13.89%) Containerisation
19 15 (13.89%) Configuration Management
19 15 (13.89%) Finance
19 15 (13.89%) PaaS

Senior DevOps Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.63%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) Apache
2 2 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (43.52%) AWS
1 47 (43.52%) Azure
2 16 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (13.89%) PaaS
4 13 (12.04%) GitHub
5 11 (10.19%) OpenShift
6 10 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (8.33%) GCP
7 9 (8.33%) Serverless
8 8 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (6.48%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (6.48%) SaaS
10 6 (5.56%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.70%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.70%) Miro
11 4 (3.70%) OCI
12 3 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.33%) Firewall
2 6 (5.56%) Network Security
3 1 (0.93%) DNS
3 1 (0.93%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.85%) Redis
7 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.93%) MySQL
7 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.93%) QGIS
7 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (26.85%) Jenkins
2 24 (22.22%) Git
3 13 (12.04%) TeamCity
4 12 (11.11%) GitLab
5 10 (9.26%) Artifactory
6 9 (8.33%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.78%) CircleCI
7 3 (2.78%) JIRA
7 3 (2.78%) Selenium
8 2 (1.85%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.85%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.93%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.93%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.93%) Snyk
9 1 (0.93%) Subversion
9 1 (0.93%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 16 (14.81%) Banking
2 15 (13.89%) Finance
2 15 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.26%) Investment Banking
4 7 (6.48%) Social Skills
5 2 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.93%) Electronics
6 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.93%) Marketing
6 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
6 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.11%) .NET
2 9 (8.33%) Kafka
3 5 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.63%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (4.63%) WCF
3 5 (4.63%) WinForms
4 4 (3.70%) Node.js
4 4 (3.70%) XML
5 3 (2.78%) YAML
6 2 (1.85%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.85%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.85%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.85%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.85%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.85%) AWS SAM
6 2 (1.85%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (1.85%) Loki
6 2 (1.85%) pytest
6 2 (1.85%) REST
7 1 (0.93%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.48%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (6.48%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.85%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.85%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.93%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.52%) Linux
2 17 (15.74%) Windows
3 13 (12.04%) Unix
4 6 (5.56%) Android
4 6 (5.56%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.85%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (1.85%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (56.48%) CI/CD
3 21 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (17.59%) Agile
4 19 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (15.74%) SDLC
6 16 (14.81%) Test Automation
7 15 (13.89%) Configuration Management
7 15 (13.89%) Containerisation
8 11 (10.19%) Roadmaps
9 10 (9.26%) Migration
9 10 (9.26%) Open Source
10 8 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (6.48%) Load Balancing
11 7 (6.48%) Observability
12 6 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (5.56%) Mentoring
12 6 (5.56%) Scrum
12 6 (5.56%) Software Engineering
12 6 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 50 (46.30%) Python
2 22 (20.37%) Bash
2 22 (20.37%) PowerShell
3 13 (12.04%) C#
4 10 (9.26%) Go
4 10 (9.26%) SQL
5 7 (6.48%) Java
6 6 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.70%) Bicep
8 3 (2.78%) C++
8 3 (2.78%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.93%) C
9 1 (0.93%) Groovy
9 1 (0.93%) Perl
9 1 (0.93%) PHP
9 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 21 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.04%) DV Cleared
4 9 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 8 (7.41%) Degree
6 6 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.93%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.93%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) QA
2 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.93%) NIST
2 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (29.63%) Docker
2 9 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 59 (54.63%) Terraform
2 54 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 35 (32.41%) Ansible
4 14 (12.96%) Grafana
5 11 (10.19%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.70%) Argo
6 4 (3.70%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.70%) Puppet
7 3 (2.78%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.85%) Nagios
9 1 (0.93%) BladeLogic
9 1 (0.93%) Graylog
9 1 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.93%) Kibana
9 1 (0.93%) Packer
9 1 (0.93%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.48%) Splunk
3 6 (5.56%) Oracle
4 5 (4.63%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.78%) VMware
6 2 (1.85%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.85%) Citrix
6 2 (1.85%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.85%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.93%) Altiris
7 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.93%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.93%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.93%) Google
7 1 (0.93%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.93%) New Relic
7 1 (0.93%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.93%) SAP